skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever air pollution comes up, I think about this study:

https://www.vox.com/2020/1/8/21051869/indoor-air-pollution-s...

Basically, false alarm about a nearby gas leak led to putting air filters in classrooms. And "math scores went up by 0.20 standard deviations and English scores by 0.18 standard deviations, and the results hold up even when you control for 'detailed student demographics, including residential ZIP Code fixed effects that help control for a student’s exposure to pollution at home.'" This is "comparable in scale to some of the most optimistic studies on the potential benefits of smaller class size."

This was an area that didn't have high levels of pollution, either. So, 1) in worse areas you'd expect bigger gains, and 2) even if your area isn't "bad" it's still having an impact.

Pollution is invisibly doing weird things to our brains, especially children, without us realizing it. Even just taking the TEST in a filtered room raises scores!
Perhaps you are trolling? NoScript is a giant hammer that smashes 90% of the functioning parts of most modern web pages. This new feature in Firefox partitions caching in a way that mostly won't affect how a site works but will block one nefarious tracking technique.
This is silly. If there was no possibility for financial gain, nobody would be investing in GME.
It looks like the largest suspended page had 100k followers, so it's around the size where I would think that they would require manual review. But Facebook relies on algorithms more heavily than I think they should, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was the truth.

A few of my FB friends have recently posted about being temp suspended from being report spammed by people who don't like them, so I wouldn't be surprised if a socialist page got targeted.
I think the massively better UK response to COVID vaccine distribution shows some of the benefits of independence.
The most common issues and concerns around censorship are specifically government mandated or enforced censorship for many reasons, as it helps hide abuses, can explicitly support abusive regimes, and generally doesn't allow 'the people to think for themselves' - enforced by jail time or other traumatic penalties (getting shot, in some places)

The underlying issue around using it as a term for things like platforms choosing what they do or do not want to publish, or private companies or actors choosing what they want to publish in their name (and taking the economic consequences for that) - is that a mandate that they CAN'T do that is it's own form of censorship, as it will by it's very nature have to proscribe what is and is not allowed to be said, and will restrict that entities ability to choose their own options.
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Dont get bored corona game – you are not fast enough
Political views are not a protected class. If I want to finance a platform that is explicitly partisan I should have the right to do so.
Where do I find a database leaked by hacker
Hi,

Recently in Brazil there are plently of news of a hacker that stole lots of personal information of almost 90% of Brazil civilians and also from many already dead people from a credit bureau company. The news (in english) is at https://olhardigital.com.br/en/2021/01/20/seguranca/vazamento-de-banco-de-dados-expoe-cpf-de-quase-toda-a-populacao-do-brasil/ if you didnt know.

On many news outlets they say the hacker is providing for free "on many forums" the entire database with just the minimmal information (like name and birth date) and is charging for the entire database with all the information (address, email, telephone...). I searched a lot at ddg.gg and also on some search engines of Tor (like Torch) but I couldnt find anything about this.

I work for a brazilian company that alerts users when their data is exposed and have lawyers who sue those companies where the informatin was leaked from on behalf of the exposed people (with their consent, of course). But after searching a lot we still cant find where this hacker is providing active communication so we can download the free database and check if the customers we already have are present in this leak).
I'm excited about Python's typing potential. I recently rewrote an API from TypeScript to Kotlin since I am fairly unhappy with the server-side TS ecosystem, but ran across https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi when exploring options and really dig it - seems to be by _far_ the lowest-ceremony way to make an HTTP API with static types that integrate with parsing/validation (something TypeScript is still really bad at, unless you bring your own runtime typing libraries...).
Without any sarcasm, do you use that 'free healthcare'? Because in QC it's not that available. Wait times are really bad, even once something is scheduled it can be pushed to future multiple times. Screens are constantly 'forgotten', pushed to the future. All of my colleagues with European/Indian passports traveled for medical reason to their home countries. Again that's Montreal experience, and as I read that's typical for Canada in general.
Air pollution has already been linked to a number of ailments like heart disease, cancer, asthma, dementia/Alzheimer's, it's certainly not the only cause but it's contribution is significant. Health care costs are something that are rarely discussed when we talk about the costs of fossil fuels but they are significant and costly in both lives and dollars.
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I've seen queries running for 1 minute 2 minutes raising user complaints. Then we looked at it, and with a few changes in indexes and query hints brought it down to sub-second execution.

Before thinking about distributed systems, there is an entire database optimization toolkit to make use of: primary key review, secondary index creation, profiling, view or stored procedure creation, temporary tables, memory tables and so on.
Hey, I just wanted to thank you for Photopea! We use it in our schools almost exclusively. Students love it.
Totally agree and that's partly why we are building it this way.
> large anarchist pages were banned a while back and were not able to get a similar reversal

maybe they should ask the government to step in
don't know if you're sarcastic. However, just because a company makes money, doesn't mean value is created. Like when you win in poker against someone, you're making money but not creating value.
You forgot the /s. This is HN here you find people that can take that seriously and agree.
Trump stomping on his predecessor's sand castle is not a new phenomenon. Patients be damned, Jimmy Carter giveth and The Gipper taketh away.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1...
Turns out that states have special rights. States also have a monopoly on violence.
> Websites should not have access to my clipboard.

Being able to take an image from the web page and place it on the clipboard is not 'the website having access to my clipboard'. It's the _browser_ having access.

Going in the reverse direction, placing data from the clipboard into the web page, is more tricky, but Firefox already does a good job of blocking clipboard accesses unless they're the direct result of user action (keyboard shortcut or button press).
The type checker may as well be one big automated unit test.

For all the time a developer spends not writing out types, it then has to be made up in manually written unit tests.
I feel for RedHat employees on the "Centos Stream" team. They are now working a product that is just a testing waystation between Fedora and RHEL, and will have no actual users.
Maybe need to modify your xdg-open settings for the slack:// scheme?
Yeah, that's why the US leads the world in healthcare research.
> Was I misinformed about Truvada's effectiveness?

No, effectively used Truvada works very well.

> Or is this in comparison to people forgetting to take their daily pills vs a shot that a health care provider had record of administering?

Probably almost certainly yes or it's just a small improvement at the margin.
It's either a poorly made bottom of the barrel crystal or they cheaped out even further and used a ceramic resonator. That is the price of race to the bottom globalization. Measuring line frequency is a no go because the safety compliance inceases costs.
Windows admin still can't elevate during remote support because of blocking UAC
> Similar to how the internet forced governments to back off on censorship laws, cryptocurrency has the potential to force the political class to rethink current financial crime laws and liberalize people's access to money.

To do this the currency needs to win in a battle against every government without being blocked or made illegal. It doesn't matter what you think about KYC laws: trying to subvert them means taking on governments, and that is almost never a winning strategy. Especially when your strategy is "build a technical system that outfoxes the government by strong-arming them into my way of thinking".
Sadly, "PWA mode" (it probably should be called "Install to desktop") was being worked on under "Site Specific Browser (SSB)" name, but due to lacking resources work will be scrapped. More info here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407202
In values we trust. Shareholder value that is
Probably writable blu ray.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK217902/

https://fee.org/articles/curing-diseases-is-sustainable-gove...

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4351

https://theconversation.com/amp/how-pharmaceutical-companies...

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/02/09/lewis-the-need-for...

https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/revolutionandrevelation/7...

https://pnhp.org/news/eliminate-the-profit-motive-in-health-...
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Subscription based healthcare. lol
There is also an alternative being developed here: https://almalinux.org/ which will be well financed by a company with years of experience.
No it was a good question! I did not make that at all clear, and the distinction is important.
What would be the chances of having an article 9 provision specifically mentioning "philosophical beliefs" if everyone had the same philosophical beliefs?

Of course, people don't have the same philosophical beliefs which is a pretty caveat to the whole argument.
Then I recommend checking out the Indie web webring https://indieweb.org/webring
In well lit areas, sure. Let's see if your dascham can see an unlit deer at night from a moving, vibrating car (it can't).
You could always start with postgresql and use the transaction log to materialize views for particular use cases (ie differential data flow). This post is clickbaity in that it doesn’t give any administration advice but right in the broad sense that postgres/mysql are still the best low-latency single sources of truth available
Brain Implants and Wearables Let Paralyzed People Move Again
Per-site caching negates the principal selling point of centrally-hosted JS and resources, including fonts. The convenience remains, but all speed-related perks (due to the resources being reused from earlier visits to unrelated sites) are no more... which is actually great, because it reduces the value that unscrupulous free CDN providers can derive from their "properties".

It also means that I can remove fonts.google.com from the uBlock blacklist. Yay.
As I said, without an extension (can't trust them), so I guess the answer for firefox is no, it doesn't support that.

Of course, it may display dark mode in sites that respect the system theme - it's the easy part.

I don't mean that, because I don't want darkmode to be restricted to the few websites that respect my system settings: I want my browser to be "always dark", regardless of how cooperative or well (or badly) done the website is.

Dark mode on Edge is forced on the website: if it doesn't support it, the colors are inverted - with no theme or CSS tweaking required.

That's not rocket science, but still far better than anything I've seen on Firefox
I am sure there is some evidence on both sides, but at the end of the day, people get into medicine and medical research to heal people, not keep them sick. The USA does not have the only medical system in the world and many countries run their systems with the goal of controlling costs, not increasing them. I don't think this kind of pessimistic conspiracy thinking adds to the conversation.
So now are they going to restore the Trump pages, and others they don't like? Seems like if you're going to restore the socialists you should at least be inclined to restore other far left/right pages; no, not QAnon, you know what I mean.
Hey thanks for setting this meeting up. I think I finally found my tribe.

Let me introduce myself, firstly I'm a gardener trying to grow my own food (using many principles such as no dig vegetable beds, Permaculture food forestry, systems thinking) and I'm also an engineer / bootstrapper.

If this is of interest to you I have a YouTube channel here: https://youtube.com/c/RussellBallestrini

I've RSVP'd and I look forward to speaking with the team and making sure people align on vision and a co-operative path forward!
> Second, why would companies support standardization effort that is supposedly intended to "harm" them? :D

IMHO because decent regulations say so. AT&T has to comply with splitting up but did AT&T go extinct? Even though the situation isn't explicitly the same, the concept that government regulations are changing the market and it's direct effects are fairly similar. In the case above, Ericsson and Nokia are players that the government want to see exist in the market but for this specific aspect of the industry, they want to see a reduced role.

IMHO, it's government trying to work better on a very important topic (for the nation, for the people, and for the global market place [more competition for Huawei).
Well not sure if it is "evidence", but in terms of marginal preventing people in the US from getting HIV, lowering the cost of Truvada from $2,000 out of pocket and publicizing it would likely have a much larger impact than this once a month shot.
I agree, but it was submitted yesterday in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25903259 with a lot of discussion, and also there is a link in the top left corner of the main page.
Most people don't mind because it's not their politics being censored.
So eventually we will have private browsing for every site so that there is no possible cross pollination? How far can that be taken?

Or am I off in the weed here about how this will play out?
Not on ubuntu but looked up in my settings how it is handled:

Preferences -> General -> Applications

Content Type: slack

Action: Use Slack

Do you have that setting?
> But if it costs $5000 per citizen that's gonna blow their budget

The end result is that they split the type of surveillance between "cheap" blanket surveillance, and targeted surveillance for the targets that are deemed valuable enough, while also striving to drive the "per target" price down.

Mass surveillance offers a good opportunity for economy of scales, and gives you a very granular estimate of how valuable a particular target is.
More specifically, Pydantic. It's great!
AI Could Go from ‘Art’ to Steering a Self-Driving Car
I believe the 'First-party isolation' feature does this, but you need to enable it from about:config, and even then, I'm not sure if it is complete or bug-free.
Dystopian is a pretty good way to describe a play where the human race is destroyed, wouldn’t you say?
I don't know anything specific about this purchase, but this doesn't surprise me a ton in light of Shell's partnership with the impact-oriented Unreasonable Group. [1] I know the Unreasonable team through my work with them on literacy issues, and they are super dedicated to making a positive impact in the world. When they announced their partnership with Shell UK, the CEO sent out an email explaining to the community why they are working with such an unlikely partner.

Hopefully this is another data point that trends in the same direction.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/annefield/2020/08/31/unreasonab...
“A lot of people would say support is 'can I just call someone', but support is also all of those updates and security fixes," he said.”

Here’s the crux of it.
But not seriously enough to remove Google Analytics from their website.
Do you think air pollution can be a cause of headaches and do you have good sources for reading about this?
Recently I have been having a constant headache after moving to Budapest. Went to the doctors, they found nothing wrong with me.
I went back to Germany and France for two weeks, felt better there. Back to Budapest, felt worse again. I also tried to move to Bielsko-Biala in Poland and the headache has gotten even worse here (2 days since I'm in Poland)
It seems far fetched that pollution is the cause of my headache because most people do not have headaches there, so I want to read more about it.
I would really like to see photos/videos of this
Does Tesla own and operate those malls? Or do mall/building companies work with Tesla to install chargers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Supercharger#Large_Super...
Sure, but IBM is going to want something for their $34B. Presumably they had a plan for getting that return prior to the purchase. Obviously it's not going according to plan now - they had a plan for CentOS and instead it has been destroyed. If I were IBM, I'd be taking a step back to understand things better before screwing things up more, because there is obviously a disconnect.

I think the IBM Redhat purchase could have been a very good thing if handled properly. CentOS was actually a feature of RHEL in a way, but no more.
Even when I google it verbatim it's often not the first hit ;) Feel free to open an issue if anything isn't clear.
You asserted they had been profitable since 2008, and this article was almost a decade later (and forward-looking). They are not profitable (enough) with launches.
Does that still hold when this platform has 3 billion users?
> Of course, some people believe that the losers in any particular forum should be silenced, because the majority view must be correct.

.. that is, consensus, at least in that particular forum. But losers still shouldn't be silenced.
Absolutely it’s important - Just because one hole is still open doesn’t mean another shouldn’t be closed.

And FF and Safari should continue their work to close any fingerprinting opportunities Fingerprinting is becoming less effective over time - for example fingerprinting on iOS is pretty unsuccessful.
Extension are a security risks. It's not rocket science to invert colors - the browser can easily do that with no CSS involved.

No browser support for dark mode= no dark mode for me.
I'd argue SSD here... those memory chips should be good for a few years.
So is this a store ?

Is the goal to eventually sell stuff ?
That's what the OC said.
Bio weapons can be devastating, but, unlike nuclear warheads, they are very hard to target.
It may be that, just as it's impossible for you to be killed by yourself from the future in this type of universe, it's also impossible to create information out of nothing, so the specific scenario you described would just be impossible.

This could be a kind of conservation law - imagine that instead of a story you had a golden coin, that you receive from your future self, keep, and give back to your past self after you travel, you've added some mass to the universe, which would be impossible because of conservation of energy.
We should certainly pressure these companies to be more transparent, but we don't need transparency. We should stop putting these corporate ad delivery networks on a pedestal as if they are the only way to communicate online. Just because they're popular doesn't mean they're the only option.
So let's say it is 2005, some phones have cameras, and some don't. The manufacturer of phones without cameras says: "Phones are for calling, just buy a camera, it is literally what you want".

You can be right, but the market has a final word.

Today, many people enjoy using advanced apps, that can be "installed" and "uninstalled" in one second (by opening and closing a website), without leaving any track (mess) in your computer.
IBM Watson is shutting down its personality insights API
It seems that last month, IBM has announced the sunset of its popular personality insights API.

Message is posted here: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/personality-insights
A much more significant performance issue with web tracking is usually the absurd amount of JS loaded.

It's almost impressive how they manage to load so much crap. Just visit a site like mediaite.com, the list of trackers is damn long.
Congrats! We at Hightouch [0] ("reverse ETL") are excited to see Airbyte here on HN. We've been following Michel & John for a while now since the YC days, and from the outside, it seems like they've been consistently shipping incredibly quickly ever sinec the open-source project launch.

@mtricot -- You mention that a big value prop of Airbyte is providing an interface for building custom connectors. Have there been interesting learnings on designing an ideal "interface" to provide developers? How does the interface you provide compare to that of Fivetran's Functions offering [1]?

[0]: https://hightouch.io

[1]: https://fivetran.com/docs/functions
How do they get your email address to remind you to use their charge rather than their competitors if you just seamlessly use a contactless card?

They've got to get that marketing information!
You aren't wrong, the author definitely conveys the impression of the stereotypical toxic engineer.
Arguably, Apple also built a tablet years before the iPad: the Newton MessagePad in 1993.
The Temporary Containers addon[1] does this. Combined with the usual Multi-Account Containers "always open this site in..." mechanism you can have some sites always open in a single container, but all other sites open in temporary containers that get deleted shortly after you close their tab.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
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As someone who has spent the last few months following WSB, to me it feels very much like an old school Internet club/social scene/etc. Reminds me a lot being involved in a niche IRC community or something.

Along with all the silliness, there are a lot of smart people posting very interesting things on the forum. Open, free for anyone to read (in a hack-the-finance-planet) sorta way.

You have people writing in-dept thesis' on which way a stock is heading / what happened yesterday / how to "play" the trade. Its clear some of the people are serious as they put hundreds of thousands up against their theory.

Along with this you get a bit of a stick-it-to-the-man feeling as well. I will shed 0 tears if a bunch of people on reddit bring multiple hedge funds down. Perhaps the entire finance world should be more open, equitable and accessible!
> Yeah BTC bad, unregulated waste dumping into seasonal rivers good.

Nobody is saying this.
That's not true; they respect the sciences. But only sufficiently "hard" ones like chemistry and biology.
I was referring to https://web.archive.org/web/20011217183836/http://www.norc.u.... The key point being that it was a much closer race, with more screwups, and he had a plausible chance of winning the single state needed to flip the result. In contrast, Trump lost multiple states by much larger margins, nothing like the hanging chads or other irregularities, and full recounts didn’t show any statistically significant discrepancies.
Somewhat ironically, Google Meet works very well for video streaming and desktop sharing on Firefox. So I think Firefox isn't missing anything.
While annoying in terms of managing licenses, doesn’t the new 16 system developer licens solve your problem with virtual machines?
That's irrelevant here. We have the counterfactual study (i.e. what would have happened if the SC decided the other way) that concluded that Bush would have widened his lead. Stating that Gore likely would have won is factually incorrect.
is it just me or more people switching to Firefox these days?